2022 Steering Committee Elections

Thank you to our candidates for standing for the 2022 Manuscript Repositories Section election.

Section members, please review their candidate statements and get to know the candidates so you can make an informed choice.

You will be voting for:

• One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term; and
• Three (3) Steering Committee members (three-year terms).

Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!

Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates

The following candidate is running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect position:       

Katie Rojas, Head of Archival Processing, University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections

I am honored to submit my name for consideration for the Vice Chair/Chair position of SAA’s Manuscripts Repositories Section. I have served on the MSS Steering Committee as an at-large member for the past two years. In that time, I worked with section leadership to plan and present online community discussions and annual section meetings. Prior to this I served on SAA’s Appointments Committee and as Chair of the SNAP Section. At the 2018 annual meeting, myself and other SNAP members collaborated with the Manuscripts Repositories Section to hold a joint section meeting which featured a panel discussion addressing archival labor topics including labor ethics, hiring practices, generalists vs. project positions, temporary vs. permanent positions, and career transitions. I have been fortunate to attend the annual meeting every year since 2016; I have been an SAA member since 2012. I have also served on committees and attended and presented at conferences for many other professional organizations including the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Archival Resources of the Virginias (formerly Virginia Heritage), the Society of Southwest Archivists, Texas Archival Resources Online, The Texas Digital Library, San Antonio Regional Archivists, and others.

Currently I am the Head of Archival Processing for the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections and recently attended the Archives Leadership Institute at Purdue. Previously I worked as the Manuscripts Archivist for the University of Texas at San Antonio and as Municipal Archivist for the City of San Antonio. I hold DAS and ACA certifications and received my MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2015.

I feel that my continued involvement in SAA and the Manuscripts Section, in conjunction with my experience as a Manuscripts Archivist, and now my role as a leader of Archivists who primarily process manuscript collections make me a well-qualified candidate for the Vice Chair/Chair position. I have a strong understanding of the broad needs and responsibilities of Manuscripts Archivists, and if elected as Vice Chair/Chair I plan to work with our section membership to focus our programming on timely issues that affect our day-to-day work as well as our role in the Archives profession. I hope to continue the section’s history of collaboration and will strive to engage section membership by conducting a survey of section members and building a program that addresses members’ concerns and topics of interest in positively impactful ways.

I thank you for your time in reading my candidate statement and for your consideration of me as your next Vice Chair/Chair of the Manuscripts Repositories Section.

Steering Committee Candidates

The following candidates are running for the Manuscript Repositories Steering Committee:

Eric Stoykovich, Manuscript Librarian and College Archivist (Trinity College)

Bio:

Eric Stoykovich serves as Manuscript Librarian and College Archivist at the Watkinson Library, a public research library at Trinity College in Hartford. Beginning in July 2019, he has overseen physical processing, reference, and collection development of the over 90 manuscript collections, dating roughly from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the present, as well as the over 2000 linear feet of Trinity College's archives. He supervises up to two part-time processing archivists and a number of student assistants. Some notable collections he has supervised processing work on include the Dard Hunter papers, the Roberts Brothers collection, and the Limited Editions Club collection. His work with the archives of Trinity College also takes him into the world of manuscripts, where he leads a transcription project of the Board of Trustees Minutes. 

Eric graduated with a B.A. in History from Brown University in 2002, a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Virginia, and a M.L.S. from the University of Maryland’s iSchool. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. 

Candidate Statement: 

An archivist by employment since 2016, Eric Stoykovich has a range of archival and library experience, including work in special collections at the University of Maryland’s Hornbake Library, the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, and with the digitization partners of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Interested in archival history and the history of women’s role in 19th-century manuscript collecting and family archives in the United States, he currently volunteers as a co-editor of Archival History News, the online newsletter of the Society of American Archivists’ Archival History Section. He served as Chair of that section in 2016-2017. He has published several book reviews involving ancient and modern archives.

A recent recipient of the Lang Fellowship at Rare Book School, Eric looks forward to addressing current challenges facing special collections repositories with a historical perspective. He has enjoyed participating in and contributing to the “What I Wish” discussions of the Manuscript Repositories Section. Thanks for your support.

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Created | 29 June 2004

Last updated | 28 September 2018